Understanding What Namespaces Are
Namespaces provide a way for a better organization of the code and avoiding conflicts between types with the same name. Consider a complex hierarchical framework of objects (such as .NET Framework) in which you have the need to expose more than one type with a particular identifier. The typical example is when software companies produce class libraries; different companies could have the need to provide their own implementation of the Person class, or the same company could provide different implementations of the Person class within the same assembly, so there could be ambiguities for developers when invoking a particular implementation of the Person class. To solve this coding problem, programming languages ...
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